Tag: Antonin Scalia

It was one of our teamâ€™s weirder investigative discoveries: The recently departed Justice Antonin Scaliaâ€”Â alevÂ ha shalom â€”Â in 2011, was ticketed for recklessly driving his black BMW.To his family, I offer condolences.Â Â To my readers, I offer the facts.Â A man’s soul must be laid to rest, but history must not be buried as well, especially now that the Justice’s passing has become grounds for stories that border on historical obscenity, cf. the New York Times, “Liberal Love for Antonin Scalia.â€

Love?? Well, if you want a Valentine, this ain’t it.

There’s been a lot of gleeful chuckling, for example, about Scalia’s courtroom bench “humor.”Â But behind his jokey comments lay a cruelty aimed at the …more

No manâ€™s passing should be a source of joy. But neither should it be a source of false histories and false tears. Justice Scalia was a right wing warrior who never let the Constitution get in the way of a chance to tear the guts out of Americansâ€™ rights. …more

No manâ€™s passing should be a source of joy. But neither should it be a source of false histories and false tears. Justice Scalia was a right wing warrior who never let the Constitution get in the way of a chance to tear the guts out of Americansâ€™ rights.

His main legacy, knifing the Voting Rights Act and blessing the Jim Crow obstacle course created by bigoted, partisan voting officials. May he rest in peace. In the meantime, hereâ€™s a battlefield report about Justice Scalia from the voting rights war. Taken from the number one bestselling single issue adult comic book of all time, Steal Back Your Vote, by Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with cartoons by Ted Rall and this done below, by Lloyd Dangle.

Stop me if you heard this one. See, these ten nuns walk into a polling station in Indiana and the guy in charge says, â€œWhoa, Sisters! What do think youâ€™re doing?â€â€œVoting,â€ says Sister Mary.

â€œWell, not here, ladies; not without your ID!â€ He demanded their driverâ€™s licenses, but the ten quite elderly Sisters of the Holy Cross, including a 98 year-old, had long ago given up cruising.

â€œScram, Sis!â€ said the man, and kicked their habits right out of the polling station.

I may not have gotten the dialogue exactly right, but I got the gist of it and the facts: the ten nuns whoâ€™d been voting at that station for decades were booted out in 2008, just after the state of Indianaâ€™s Republican legislature imposed new voter ID laws.

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